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gaurav khare

@gauravkhare

Data & AI leader at Target in India, transforming the personalization platform behind $1.5B+ in annual incremental sales with agentic AI in production.

India

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At Target in India, I lead the enterprise personalization and decisioning platforms behind $1.5B+ in annual incremental sales. I moved the platform from on-prem Hadoop to cloud-native GCP, put a multi-agent LangGraph workflow into production, and helped reduce manual campaign effort to under an hour for 80% of campaigns.

Earlier, I created Target’s Creative Analytics capability and surfaced $140M in supply chain opportunities. At Licious, I redesigned the delivery promise and network to support 5x growth in one year; at Amazon India, I launched Seller Flex and helped grow it to 15% of the FBA business. I’m a PhD candidate at IIM Indore and visiting faculty at TAPMI, bringing research and teaching into my work across retail, data and AI.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Director, Data Science — Personalization & Decisioning Platforms

Current

Target Corporation

Nov 2025 - Present (1 year)

Leads strategy, architecture, and delivery of Target's enterprise promotion-optimization and Next Best Action platforms, serving tens of millions of guests. Drove cloud migration, production agentic AI, and governance across 24 codebases.

GCP Vertex AI BigQuery Kubeflow LangGraph LLM Evaluation MLOps Python SQL A B Testing AI Governance

Director, Marketing Analytics — Creative & Content Analytics

Target Corporation

Feb 2025 - Oct 2025 (8 months)

Created a new enterprise capability for governed metric definitions and weekly business reviews, giving marketing leadership a trusted view of creative performance. Delivered identity resolution for the customer data platform.

Marketing Analytics Customer Data Platforms Identity Resolution Data Governance Team Leadership

Director, Operations Research — Supply Chain

Target Corporation

Jan 2022 - Jan 2025 (3 years)

Led supply chain decision-science team, reframing network strategy around a guest-centred metric and surfacing $140M in opportunities. Built enterprise simulation capability and authored learning charter for OR teams.

Operations Research Supply Chain Optimization Simulation network design Replenishment Strategy Design Python Gurobi

Vice President, Customer Experience & Operations Excellence

Licious

Feb 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Led customer experience, product, and operations excellence, redesigning delivery promise and network to support 5x growth. Improved product availability from 43% to 86% and halved customer contacts.

Customer Experience Operational Excellence Supply Chain ERP Analytics Inventory Planning

Vice President, Operations Excellence

OYO Life

Mar 2019 - Feb 2020 (11 months)

Led sales and operations for India's largest long-stay rental business, building a technology-enabled service model that enabled rapid property addition while maintaining NPS at 25.

Operations Management Technology Enablement Team Leadership Customer Service

Site Leader; Senior Manager, Supply Chain; Operations Manager

Amazon India

Mar 2014 - Mar 2019 (5 years)

Built and scaled new businesses including Seller Flex and Amazon Fresh, and ran large-scale operations as Site Leader of India's second-largest fulfilment centre. Bridged operations and technology through product roadmaps.

Supply Chain Operations Management Fulfilment Product Management Hiring

Senior Associate

Intellecap

Jan 2013 - Jan 2014 (1 year)

Provided go-to-market strategy consulting for the Rockefeller Foundation and a med-tech MNC.

Strategy Consulting Go To Market

Major

Indian Army

Jan 2002 - Jan 2012 (10 years)

Commanded a 200-soldier company in counter-insurgency and high-altitude operations, led bomb-disposal teams, and delivered a high-altitude infrastructure project in record time.

Leadership Operations Team Management